2. Ownership
• Comcast Corporation founded in 1963 (formerly registered as Comcast Holdings)is
an American global telecommunications conglomerate that is the
largest broadcasting and cable television company in the world by revenue
(through its Xfinity brand). It is the second-largest pay-tv company
after AT&T(American Telephone & Telegraph), it is the largest cable TV company
and largest home Internet service provider in the United States, and the nation's
third-largest home telephone service provider. Comcast services U.S. residential
and commercial customers in 40 states and in the District of Columbia. The
company's headquarters are located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. As the owner
of the international media company NBCUniversal since 2011, Comcast is a
producer of feature films and television programs intended for theatrical
exhibition and over-the-air and cable television broadcast.
• Brian L. Roberts is an American businessman who currently serves as the
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Comcast Corporation, an American
company providing cable, entertainment, and communications products and
services.
• Comcast owns and operates the Xfinity cable/telecommunications service, over-
the-air national broadcast network channels (NBC and Telemundo), multiple cable-
only channels (including MSNBC, CNBC, USA Network, NBCSN, E!, among others).
Also Comcast owns the film production studio Universal Pictures, and Universal
Parks & Resorts in Los Angeles, California; Orlando, Florida; and Osaka,
Japan. Universal Studios Singapore, one of the four Universal operating theme
parks, is wholly owned by Genting Group, and a few new locations such
as Universal Studios Beijing are currently under construction or planned in the
future
3. Funding
• Comcast are not like other companies when it comes to funding.
Being funded by ventures(private equity they do not have a
specific fund size. For us, every year is its own fund. Investment
can come late or early depending on the project I the different
platform owned by comcast. It is unique as there financially
focused fund is evaluated on its ability to return capital.
What sets them apart from other financial investors is their ability
to add value beyond just capital. For each investment, they
leverage the Comcast and NBCUniversal family of companies,
providing access to a massive distribution platform of 22 million
cable subscribers and high-speed Internet customers, over 110
million households that view their content, 2 million SMB
customers as well as access to Comcast/NBCUniversal’s network of
more than 160K employees. While a relationship with a Comcast
business unit is never a guarantee as part of an investment from
Comcast Ventures, our ties with Comcast/NBCUniversal provide an
array of opportunities for current and future entrepreneurs and
companies. Post investment, they say that they work tirelessly to
ensure that their entrepreneurs have the right support and access to
the key decision makers and services within Comcast and NBCUniversal.
4. Synergy
How Comcast
and
NBCUniversal
Used Minions
to Fuse an
Empire
• Synergy means the interaction or cooperation of two or more
organizations, substances, or other agents to produce a combined effect
greater than the sum of their separate effects.
Minions” took in about $115.2 million on its opening weekend, one of
the biggest animated openings on record, and went on to gross $1.16
billion worldwide. Minions, the impish fire hydrant-shaped yellow
misfits who exist to serve the world’s most evil villains, would appear to
be unlikely mascots for corporate synergy at Comcast, one of the world’s
largest media conglomerates. The animated characters made their
debut in 2010 in Universal Pictures’ “Despicable Me,” backing up the
wicked mastermind Gru in his quest to steal the moon. At the time,
federal regulators were reviewing Comcast’s bid to take control of
NBCUniversal, the owner of the NBC broadcast network, a bundle of
cable television networks, a film studio and theme park business. Brian
L. Roberts, the chief executive of Comcast, had long dreamed of building
a new industry behemoth that would unite the cable company his father
started in 1963 with the flashy world of world of television, news,
movies and theme parks. Doing so, he believed, would allow the
combined company to lead both the distribution and development of
content in an era when people increasingly watched what they wanted
when and how they wanted to. Mr. Roberts ended up winning his prize,
agreeing to more than 150 government-imposed conditions to close the
deal for NBCUniversal. And the steady rise of the Minions — who went
on to star in two more lucrative movies and also help to promote several
other Comcast assets — illustrate how the two sides of the company
have come together to champion certain business initiatives and,
according to several financial metrics, prospered. “It started as a
concept and a guiding principle, and now it is the secret sauce,” Mr.
Roberts said
5. Regulatory Bodies
• For comcast Kathryn A. Zachem serves as Executive Vice President, Regulatory and State Legislative
Affairs for Comcast Corporation. In this capacity, she is responsible for the Company’s advocacy
before federal agencies, including the Federal Communications Commission, and state regulatory
and legislative bodies.
• Kathy joined Comcast in 2008 from the law firm Wilkinson Barker Knauer, LLP, where she was a
founding partner and practiced communications law for 23 years. During that time, she represented
clients from nearly every segment of the communications sector, including media, telecom,
wireless, satellite and Internet service providers.
The Federal Communications Commission is one of Comcasts made regulatory Bodes and regulates interstate and
international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite and cable in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and U.S.
territories. An independent U.S. government agency overseen by Congress, the commission is the United States' primary
authority for communications law, regulation and technological innovation. In its work facing economic opportunities and
challenges associated with rapidly evolving advances in global communications, the agency capitalizes on its competencies in:
Promoting competition, innovation and investment in broadband services and facilities
Supporting the nation's economy by ensuring an appropriate competitive framework for the unfolding of the
communications revolution
Encouraging the highest and best use of spectrum domestically and internationally
Revising media regulations so that new technologies flourish alongside diversity and localism
Providing leadership in strengthening the defence of the nation's communications infrastructure
Carries on for the FCC
6. • Rules and Rulemakings
• The FCC's rules and regulations are in Title 47 of the
Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), which are published
and maintained by the Government Printing Office.
Title 47 Rules & Regulations are also available on the
web in a searchable format.
• Most FCC rules are adopted by a process known as
"notice and comment" rulemaking. Under that process,
the FCC gives the public notice that it is considering
adopting or modifying rules on a particular subject and
seeks the public's comment. The Commission considers
the comments received in developing final rules. For
more information, check out our online summary of
the Rulemaking Process at the FCC.
• Advisory Committees
• In 1972 Congress passed the Federal Advisory
Committee Act to ensure that advice by advisory
committees is objective and accessible to the public.
The Act put in place a process for establishing,
operating, overseeing, and terminating these
committees that provide valuable input from consumer
groups, industry stakeholders, public safety officials
and other interested parties.
Leadership - The agency is directed by five commissioners who are
appointed by the President of the United States and confirmed by the
U.S. Senate. The president also selects one of the commissioners to
serve as chairman. Only three commissioners can be of the same
political party at any given time and none can have a financial interest
in any commission-related business. All commissioners, including the
chairman, have five-year terms, except when filling an unexpired
term.
Organization - The commission is organized into bureaus and offices,
based on function (see also Organizational Charts of the FCC). Bureau
and office staff members regularly share expertise to cooperatively
fulfil responsibilities such as:
Developing and implementing regulatory programs
Processing applications for licenses and other filings
Encouraging the development of innovative services
Conducting investigations and analysing complaints
Public safety and homeland security
Consumer information and education
7. Examples of Products/services for Comcast
• NBCUniversal owns and operates a valuable portfolio of news and
entertainment television networks, a premier motion picture
company, significant television production operations, a leading
television stations group, world-renowned theme parks, and a suite
of leading Internet-based businesses. Including Universal
entertainment, parks & resorts. They describe this part of the
industry as “Creating legendary films that have touched the hearts
of millions and fuelled culture’s imagination with cinema for more
than 100 years” which I believe is true as many of the best films are
made within universal, when their branded image appears at the
beginning of a film you can always tell it will be a movie you will
enjoy. There are many strands to Universal, as the production
company has grown over their 100 year development, they have
added different aspects to the company such as “DreamWorks
animations” or universal studios one of the biggest theme parks
revolving around film. This in result when comcast and
NBCUniversal became one allowed the revenue for comcast to
increase to higher levels compared to what they already were. As I
believe this is one of the best services they produce for the
consumers for the world, compared to the range of other services
and products comcast own and produce. These products are clearly
successful as the revenue for 2017 was nearly 85 billion dollars, and
the prediction for the following year is even higher.
8. Examples of Products/services
for Comcast
• Other examples of products/services Comcast provide are like Xfinity,
Comcast states they deliver the best in TV, Internet, voice, mobile, and
home management, all working together to give customers instant
access to the things that matter most – anywhere, anytime (in the US).
The reason that their services are so successful is because they offer the
latest technology with all the features someone could ask for, all for a
reasonable price (depending on what you see as reasonable) there
services are linked with other giant companies like being able to watch
Netflix or YouTube using their Infinity tv, through infinity they offer
other products such internet, phones and home controlling devices so
you can connect all of your devices together. Infinity and the NBCU are
comcasts two largest brands/companies they own which connects
together many different brands, companies and productions together
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